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Erbswurst: Family History On the Table

We always enjoy when our interests come together in a cool way. We are both interested in history, including military history and (obviously) family history. Both of us love cooking and experimenting with food. We also like to camp. So when we found a couple of videos about Erbswurst, we had to go down that rabbit hole!

Keeping track of the actual photographs

I’ve talked in a couple of previous posts about the challenges of keeping track of all the information and the photographs that we have for our family history. My post about the photographs covered the digital side of organizing. Now we needed to come up with a storage and organizing solution for the actual photographs.

Happy birthday Cousin Dorothy!

Dorothy Ann Hoel was born to Orville and Eleanor Johnson Hoel on February 24, 1941 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She is Walt’s cousin.

Happy Birthday Gertrude Clemens Brune!

On this day in 1908, Gertrude Clemens was born to Frank and Josephine Krueger Clemens in West Point, Iowa. Gertrude lived in West Point her entire life.

Cook! Cook! Where’s my Hasenpfeffer?

From “Shishkabugs

Whenever I hear the word hasenpfeffer, I automatically think of the Bugs Bunny cartoon “Shishkabugs.” Yosemite Sam is the cook for a fussy King, and has to figure out what hasenpfeffer is. Hasenpfeffer is a stewed rabbit dish from Germany. There are numerous variations, and this is version I make.

Happy birthday, Grandpa Link!

William John Link, Walt’s grandfather, was born on February 10, 1884, in West Point to Isadore and Teresa Kempker Link. He was born in the Kempker family home above the store as told in this post. The Links lived on a farm outside of West Point.

The birthday that almost snuck past us

So we were talking and realized that our blog had it’s second birthday! That’s right, we’ve been writing this blog for two years now! It has been an amazing ride and we are so glad you have all come along with us.

Restoring a Gerstner Tool Chest: Part Two

In part one of this set, I discussed how I acquired my Gerstner tool chest and the how I started the restoration process. I carefully taped over the hardware I couldn’t remove and cleaned the chest with Murphy’s Oil Soap and with a rag. I scrubbed it fairly hard to get all the dirt off. A bit of linseed oil to brought the shine back up on the chest.

Celebrating an anniversary of really shirttail relations

Sometimes it is easy to dive way, way too deep into the family history research. We’ve talked about shirt tail relations in a couple of other posts – here and here. Well, I think we may have found one of the most shirttail relations on the tree.

Restoring a Gerstner Tool Chest: Part One

A few years ago, Walt and I were at a model engineering show checking out the many cool engines and tools. There were a couple of dealers who had older Gerstner tool chests for sale. I managed to sweet talk one of them down in price a bit and walked away with a rough looking but solid tool chest – for my studio.

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